Wear and Tear
Anne Hollander, 6 February 1997
Yves St Laurent: A Biography
by Alice Rawsthorn.
HarperCollins, 405 pp., £20, November 1996,0 00 255543 3 Show More
by Alice Rawsthorn.
HarperCollins, 405 pp., £20, November 1996,
“... Alice Rawsthorn begins her book about Yves St Laurent with a dramatic prologue evoking a period late in the designer’s career, specifically the end of January and the beginning of February 1990. This opening functions as a sort of morality play, suggesting how we might view the story that follows. Yves St Laurent is introduced receiving a 13-minute ovation for his 1990 spring couture collection, a show comprising many dazzling examples of his homage to the clients, artists and predecessors who have inspired him for thirty years ... ”